ArticlePhysiological reports2018
Cerebellar direct current stimulation modulates hand blink reflex: implications for defensive behavior in humans.
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- Cerebellar Theta Frequency Transcranial Pulsed Stimulation Increases Frontal Theta Oscillations in Patients with Schizophrenia.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2019Trial
- Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (ctDCS) Ameliorates Phantom Limb Pain and Non-painful Phantom Limb Sensations.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2019Trial
- Modulation of brainstem reflexes induced by non-invasive brain stimulation: is there a future?Neural regeneration research · 2021Article
- Prepulse inhibition vs cognitive modulation of the hand-blink reflex.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Beyond the target area: an integrative view of tDCS-induced motor cortex modulation in patients and athletes.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2019Review
- Muscular effort increases hand-blink reflex magnitude.Neuroscience letters · 2019Article
- Effects of Long-Lasting High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Chronic Disorders of Consciousness: A Pilot Study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Cerebellar direct current stimulation modulates hand blink reflex: implications for defensive behavior in humans.Physiological reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
The cerebellum is involved in a wide number of integrative functions. We evaluated the role of cerebellum in peripersonal defensive behavior, as assessed by the so-called hand blink reflex (HBR), modulating cerebellar activity with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Healthy subjects underwent cerebellar (sham, anodal, and cathodal tcDCS) and motor cortex tDCS (anodal or cathodal; 20', 2 mA). For the recording of HBR, electrical stimuli were delivered using a surface bipolar electrode placed on the median nerve at the wrist and EMG activity recorded from the orbicularis oculi muscle bilaterally. Depending on the hand position respective to the face, HBR was assessed in four different conditions: "hand-far," "hand-near" (eyes open), "side hand," and "hand-patched" (eyes closed). While sham and cathodal cerebellar stimulation had no significant effect, anodal tcDCS dramatically dampened the magnitude of the HBR, as measured by the area under the curve (AUC), in the "hand-patched" and "side hand" conditions only, for ipsilateral (F
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